The TV shows you've seen recently thread.

[Potato]

Great ending, but Six Feet Under and The Shield both had better endings.

The Shield should have ended with season 5. Instead it dragged on and became absolutely unbelievable dog shit. It was literally a bunch of Scooby Doo episodes

You take that back. You can say that about dogshit like Sons of Anarchy, but The Shield remained great throughout.

The ending killed regardless.

[Pissy F Benny]

Who didn't love emo Vic in series 6?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

stranger things was never a good show.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I think Sandmans problem with regard to budgetting is that it was never intended to be a TV series, and the way they're being almost slavishly faithful to the source material means there's not a lot of budget trimming they can do, other than hire unknowns for the cast or have CW level SFX.

Assuming similar treatment to S1, S2 introduces the rest of the endless, revisits Hell, introduces (at the least) the Norse, Egyptian and Shinto pantheons, would likely introduce and foreshadow the Faerie, and cover the consequences of the dead roaming the earth, ending with the appearance of Abrahamic angels.

And thats the first half of the season. the Second half is entirely Never Ending Story, with (again) mostly all new characters, all new sets and locations, and heavily CG driven.

There's really not a lot of opportunity to do a couple of bottle episodes to stretch the budget.

[Tasty]

Maybe Sandman should have been animation?

Though that wouldn't have exactly saved it from cancellation at Netflix either, with everything happening in that field.

[Snoopycat_]

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You take that back. You can say that about dogshit like Sons of Anarchy, but The Shield remained great throughout.

The ending killed regardless.

That's very true. SOA was literally a Scooby Doo rip off. I stopped watching after an episode they were all running around a hospital, exactly like the Scooby gang.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://tvline.com/lists/batman-caped-crusader-hbo-max-not-moving-forward-animated-urkel-holiday/

[Tasty]

Bruce Timm has had his own Loeb-like decline in the last ~10 years, and I don't get excited for JJ anything anymore, so I'm not too disappointed personally.

[Phoenix Dark]

The Rehearsal's season finale was so unhinged and wrong...I loved it. Looking forward to S2. I hope the show gets back to Nathan helping different people each episode though. I do like the over arching house/child/Amanda story and would like it to continue, I just also want each ep to include other people and things lol.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://tvline.com/lists/batman-caped-crusader-hbo-max-not-moving-forward-animated-urkel-holiday/

Such a bummer. Was hoping this was going to be a real prestige project, bringing back the quality of what DC animation used to look like

[D3RANG3D]

[MMaRsu]

Hm, lame.

Cant beat Christina Ricci



Also why make a show about Wednesday Adams.. I mean really?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

you know why

[jorma]

I thought it was because she's the best character in the family, but maybe there are other reasons?

[HaughtyFrank]

I thought it was because she's the best character in the family, but maybe there are other reasons?

People on imgur and the like seem to have the hots for a grown up Wednesday. I'll give it a 80% chance that she and the blond quirky girl will hookup.

[HardcoreRetro]

*Looks up actress' age*

More hot goth girls. Gets a thumbs up from me.

[HaughtyFrank]

The Rehearsal finale was heartbreaking. I know it's kind of difficult to tell what in this show is fiction and what is real but that seemed very real to me.

[Polident Hive]

Somehow found myself watching The Resort on Peacock…plus? Max? I’ll loop back to this. Went in blind based on the two leads but as the cast fills out, I’m noticing other actors I like and it’s a fun premise. Based on the pilot, anyway. In 2022 there’s struggling married couple who come across an old Razr at a Cancun resort. Digging into photos and texts from 2007, they’re desperately trying to find meaning and mystery to it. The parallel story is that story from 2007. Unclear if the 2007 events are their inference or the truth.

Anyway, was too tired to watch a full movie and noticed I had this peacock app on my TV. Clicked it and saw the thumbnail for the show. Struck me because I just saw the two leads in thumbnails for HBO Max shows. Really, get the bag. All these companies are spending to get streaming content. This is a show that’ll get lost between the cracks. Chances of finding another human in real life who has seen The Resort are nil. Strangely appealing to me.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I know one person that likes it.

Too many damn streaming services.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

On the upside, when all these clearly-won't-survive streaming services die, the big ones that do will get a load of 'new' content to justify the sub!

[Tasty]

On the upside, when all these clearly-won't-survive streaming services die, the big ones that do will get a load of 'new' content to justify the sub!

Library content only grows and generates further value over time. The various purchasers of MGM going back to the 80s realized this, particularly Ted Turner.

[Madrun Badrun]

Hulk ep 2 was better.

[Potato]

The Sandman really took a turn for the worse after about 6 or 7 episodes. I was super keen on the "escaping and getting his shit back" storyline, but then it took a sudden turn into teen drama bullshit.

She-Hulk is surprisingly not complete shit and is actually mildly funny.

[HaughtyFrank]

Everything surrounding Rings of Power feels so heated

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1565082257274159108

https://twitter.com/inversedotcom/status/1564966106821009408

[HardcoreRetro]

“And this idea that anyone could know exactly what he would've wanted or what he would've liked is, I feel, nonsense."

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHA

Come on...

[james]

On the upside, when all these clearly-won't-survive streaming services die, the big ones that do will get a load of 'new' content to justify the sub!

I had Peacock for 2 years for me because my mom had Comcast. I must have used it 4 times total.

I had Paramount+ for 15 months with the free Sportsline thing. I must have used it 4 times and hated it every time because the app is such a piece of shit.

I hope they die

[Tuckers Law]

Rings of Power’s writing sounds just absolutely wretched.  Even uber-shill Grace Randolph called this portrayal of Galadriel both a Karen and Mary Sue, a “Karen-Sue” if you will.

I’m somewhat interested in watching an episode now just to see how awful it is.

[HaughtyFrank]

She-Hulk 2 and 3 have been better than the pilot but the writing keeps being pretty bad. You can see where it could have been a better show with some good comedy writers but instead it has this kind of humor which can only really be described as "wine mom"

[Nintex]

$750 million

Despite all their shitting on the fans this looks like your average Comic-Con cosplay 

[Potato]

I can deal with cosplay quality costume design and forced diversity. What I can't deal with is female dwarves. Tolkien would be rolling in his grave.

[HaughtyFrank]

I don't know how or why any production would ever agree to do PR with entertainment weekly

https://twitter.com/WiseOldGarfield/status/1565232837111869440

[Polident Hive]

What a lovely surprise The Resort has been 

Can’t remember the last time I watched something sight unseen. Not even a recommendation. All I knew was the title and two leads. Going back and reading about the creators, it’s all clicking. I’ll hide who, but if I knew, I’d have expectations.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

It’s by the Palm Springs people and Mr. Robot guy.

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Conversely, The Bear and Yellowjackets are two shows people pitched hard. Expectations have me wanting to go in with the right mindset. Not when I’m tired after a long day. I know it’s a dumb attitude.

[Bebpo]

I wonder with $600M+ budget if Amazon will actually stream it with a decent 4k bitrate to make it look good.

Last Prime show I watched was Wheel of Time and it took them like 6eps to realize they fucked up the 4k encode and it looks like a VCD and then they fixed it for like the last ep or two and it just looked ok.

Meanwhile House of the Dragon being HBO's first 4K TV stream looks near-reference quality for 4k streaming.

[Transhuman]

What a lovely surprise The Resort has been 

Can’t remember the last time I watched something sight unseen. Not even a recommendation. All I knew was the title and two leads. Going back and reading about the creators, it’s all clicking. I’ll hide who, but if I knew, I’d have expectations.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

It’s by the Palm Springs people and Mr. Robot guy.

[close]

Conversely, The Bear and Yellowjackets are two shows people pitched hard. Expectations have me wanting to go in with the right mindset. Not when I’m tired after a long day. I know it’s a dumb attitude.

Yellowjackets is

spoiler (click to show/hide)

really good

[close]

And The Bear is

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too

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[Bebpo]

Didn't realize LoTR dropped today. Thought it was tomorrow.

Watching ep1 and ....ok, this looks really fucking nice. That budget is showing. Why couldn't Wheel of Time look half as good as this and not like some shitty Xena budget fantasy show.

[Bebpo]

Ok, finished ep1 & 2 of LoTR.
Not a LoTR fan. Only seen the movies. Don't know anything about the lore beyond that.

Was pretty solid, not as good as House of the Dragon, definitely not as good as Jackson's LoTR original trilogy. But solid start that looks and sounds nice. All the PoVs are interesting, no bad ones in there, but because there are so many of them the pacing is pretty slow since it jumps between them.

Lotta spectacle, cool looking stuff. Some nice art shots, though I feel like the entire thing is directed like a videogame cutscene sometimes.

Story seems kinda interesting. Looking forward to ep3. I think once things kick off in another ep or two it could be pretty cool. Production values are insane and the opening gives a good glimpse at the kind of epic stuff they can do with this budget.

Like the cast, though no one stands out so far. Everyone is solid though.

[Pissy F Benny]

Yeah some of it looks obviously green screened and fake, some looks superb. its probably the closest a series fx has come to a film, but not quite there.

[D3RANG3D]

I can deal with cosplay quality costume design and forced diversity. What I can't deal with is female dwarves. Tolkien would be rolling in his grave.

Yeah where is her beard?

[Bebpo]

Couple of other thoughts on LoTR:

-Never remembered the elves in LoTR being particularly interesting, like them more here and more interested in seeing Elvish stuff.

-The main elf gal is sufficiently badass. I feel like there aren't a ton of badass female leads in fantasy, so she's great.

-So since I don't know ANYTHING about Middle-Earth history, I gotta say it feels like this is a weird middle series? Like from that intro it seems you could've done an entire show about the Elf kingdom and the appearance of Morgoth and coming to Middle Earth and the war against Morgoth. Like that seems interesting enough to be its own entire show. But instead we get the story after that but before LoTR, and I guess they are doing this one because it has more direct ties to LoTR with Sauron and the rings themselves so it's more of a hook for people who've seen LoTR.

-The dwarves in the Hobbit were really annoying. These ones are much better.

-It is kind of odd the entire cast is all actors that aren't really known. You'd think they'd have gotten a Sean Bean GoT S1 kind of well known actor to anchor it somewhere. Especially given the budget. I mean everyone is doing fine so far, just there's no big actor dominating a role.

[HaughtyFrank]

I can deal with cosplay quality costume design and forced diversity. What I can't deal with is female dwarves. Tolkien would be rolling in his grave.

Yeah where is her beard?

Yeah, from what I remember female dwarves are a thing but visually they're basically indistinguishable from the male ones. I guess that would have been one step too far for Amazon

[Mupepe]

I can deal with cosplay quality costume design and forced diversity. What I can't deal with is female dwarves. Tolkien would be rolling in his grave.

Yeah where is her beard?

Yeah, from what I remember female dwarves are a thing but visually they're basically indistinguishable from the male ones. I guess that would have been one step too far for Amazon

There’s even a joke in The Two Towers movie about this.

I loved both episodes honestly. It’s exactly what I want from a LOTR show and feels like the original trilogy.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/guinnessfanatic/status/1566111120733110272

That's certainly one way to think about media I guess.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/KaijuNewsOutlet/status/1564675972976214022

Time to finally get Apple TV+ I guess

[Tuckers Law]

Ted Lasso is worth a watch when you do.

[Pissy F Benny]

Ted Lasso is really good and take that from someone who should in theory hate it (an English football fan).

[Potato]

I thought they got plenty of the football things right in Ted Lasso tbh. Obviously it's dramatised and played for laughs, but some of those old-school yo-yo clubs are basically run by a bunch of incompetent fools.

[Pissy F Benny]

Yeah the idea of an American series about English football has me naturally

But they did it really well. It has a rare charm to it too, especially in the content age.

[Snoopycat_]

Finished Saul. It was excellent. I watched BB again, then Saul and somehow managed to avoid spoilers. The worst thing about watching a show like Saul is you can't say your watching it because sure as fuck some wanker will say oh, wait til you get to the part where....

[james]

Paging Dr Oz, Paging Dr Oz

In case family members on a dating show together wasn’t weird enough, the show features a number of other inappropriate twists. We see relatives tag along on double dates, sibling pairs date other sibling pairs, and even two sets of twins date each other. In Episode 1, we also learn that not only will everyone be sharing a room at night, but siblings will sleep in the same bed as each other. And at one point a brother and sister pair are even tasked with convincing another duo in the house to guard the bathroom for them while they share a bath together. Why?? Because host Melinda Berry told them to.

https://decider.com/2022/09/06/netflix-dated-and-related-review/

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I thought they got plenty of the football things right in Ted Lasso tbh. Obviously it's dramatised and played for laughs, but some of those old-school yo-yo clubs are basically run by a bunch of incompetent fools.

the weird thing that they really got right and is so super specific to brit footy culture you don't really see it anywhere else to the same extent that nailing it made the entire thing come across as 'authentic' was the football chants.

Like, that bit with "He's here, he's there, he's every fucking where" is like when a fucking action hero leitmotif kicks in in terms of underscoring the poignancy of that scene.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://deadline.com/2022/09/fox-animated-drama-his-majestys-dragons-renewals-talks-the-simpsons-family-guy-1235110496/

Last year, Deadline revealed that the network was developing an animated series based on Robert C. O’Brien’s Rats of NIMH book series.

This project, which comes from Fox Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Television, will be joined by an animated take on His Majesty’s Dragon, a fantasy novel by Naomi Novik, Deadline can reveal.

The series, which is in development and has received a script commitment, is set during an alternate-history version of the Napoleonic Wars, in which dragons not only exist but are piloted like skyships and choose their own masters.

[Bebpo]

Rings ep3 - Show is pretty good, definitely enjoying it. But I don't know if this works in episodic format with how it's paced and so many PoVs because it just feels like not enough happens in each PoV per ep. Maybe it would've been better to cut one of the PoV characters and save them for S2 so S1 is tighter and can slow down and expand with more characters in S2, or maybe they should've released all the eps at once. Idk.

Most of the scenes are good, though here and there you get a cheesy scene. The internet is gonna meme/troll that horse riding scene in this ep for sure.

Still looks zomg and the music by McCreary is great.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1567700455504941056
https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1567966538019250180

[Himu]

Cobra Kai season 5 is amazing and hilarious as fuck

[HaughtyFrank]

Rings ep3 - Show is pretty good, definitely enjoying it. But I don't know if this works in episodic format with how it's paced and so many PoVs because it just feels like not enough happens in each PoV per ep. Maybe it would've been better to cut one of the PoV characters and save them for S2 so S1 is tighter and can slow down and expand with more characters in S2, or maybe they should've released all the eps at once. Idk.

Most of the scenes are good, though here and there you get a cheesy scene. The internet is gonna meme/troll that horse riding scene in this ep for sure.

Still looks zomg and the music by McCreary is great.

I guess it'll depend on how big of a role these characters will still play this season, but at least in this episode the whole bit about Isildur and his sisters education felt almost hilariously unnecessary. I did not expect to basically have discussions about when and which college some teens will attend.

[Himu]

Cobra Kai memorialized Olive Garden decades after PD's Olive Garden post. Ahead of his time.

[D3RANG3D]

Dis shit looks better than Rings of Power. 

[Madrun Badrun]

[Bebpo]

Good trailers. Is Werewolf by Night supposed to actually continue into the MCU stuff or is it just a standalone thing?

[Madrun Badrun]

I was confused about that too.  Guess we will see.